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** As for [[The Lancer]]: "The only one knows how to run it as well as I do is A.J."
{{quote|"You know, A.J., [[Exact Words|there's not a job on the planet]] that [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork|I want you to work with me on.]]"}}
* [[Award Bait Song]]: Aerosmith's "I Don't Want
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]:
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The world is saved. Grace and AJ get married, and large photos of all the roughnecks who died on the mission, in their mission suits, are placed where they would've stood in the wedding party.
** The world is saved, but New York, Paris and Shanghai need some serious cleaning up
*** They probably did, given the dispersal we're shown ''via'' the scientists' brainstorming sessions/computer screens, but watching empty deserts get hit by giant space rocks is [[Rule of Cool|much less exciting]].
* [[Brick Joke]]: After Rockhound is selected for the mission, we see him receiving a huge amount of cash from a loan shark. Later, he mentions offhandedly that he's not looking forward to returning safely to Earth because he blew it all on a stripper named Molly Mounds. The real payoff comes at the end, though, when Miss Mounds (who is [[Gag Boobs|well-named]]) [[The Glomp|greets]] Rockhound as he comes off the shuttle.
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* [[Creator Cameo]]: [[Michael Bay]] as a NASA scientist.
* [[Death From Above]]
* [[Deceptive Legacy]]: Chick's ex or estranged wife, incensed by Chick showing up unannounced to see their small son, dismisses him to the boy as "a salesman." Later on, she [[Dramatic Drop|drops the phone]] and tells the boy the truth when he points out "that salesman is on TV"
* [[Defcon Five]]: Yeah, giant meteor killing everything on the planet including bacteria, that'd work.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "Iron Ferrite
* [[Deus Ex Nukina]]/[[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Literally. Suffice to say actively propelling two chunks of several hundred mile-across asteroid rapidly away from each other is going to require a hell of a lot more firepower than you can fit in one nuclear warhead. In [[Real Life]], this scenario of a very large, undiscovered asteroid appearing a few weeks before impact means we die, full stop.
** Even more insane is the "backup plan" where the nuke will be detonated on the surface. Lampshaded by earlier discussion that this would be entirely ineffective but still done anyway because of some "Presidential Scientific Advisors" who apparently failed Physics 101.
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* [[The Eternal Churchill]]
* [[Explosions in Space]]: The explosion of the Russian Space Station, for starters.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: {{spoiler|Rockhound}} wanted to be the one to make the [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. In his own words, {{spoiler|"I owe a hundred grand to a fat-ass [[Loan Shark]], which I spent on a stripper named Molly Mounds."}}
** Fortunately, since Team Stamper saved the world and are pretty much [[Big Damn Heroes]], said [[Loan Shark]] will probably get paid back relatively quickly because Rockhound and company probably made lots of money very quickly on deals, interviews, merchandising, etc... (
** And, most importantly, [[Marshmallow Hell|Ms. Mounds]] met Rockhound at the splashdown to [[Glomp|welcome him home]].
* [[Gatling Good]]: Both of the Armadillo vehicles are armed with these, one of which Rockhound starts shooting wildly when he goes loopy from so-called 'space dementia'.
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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Harry's}}.
* [[Hollywood Science]]
* [[Homage]]:
* [[Infant Immortality]]: kind of. It's a small dog who survives the opening destruction scenes, rather than a child.
** On the other side, they did show kids playing in Paris and Shanghai before these cities fell to [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]]...
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* [[In Space Everyone Can See Your Face]]
* [[Laughing Mad]]: After Rockhound goes quite nutty in space, Rockhound, during the dig, ends up utilizing a Gatling gun and starts shooting indiscriminately while laughing.
* [[Manly Tears]]: shed by AJ and by most of the surviving roughnecks during Harry's big speech.
* [[Mathematician's Answer]]: In some markets, this film was advertised as starring "Oscar winners Ben Affleck and Billy Bob Thornton". While it is true that both these men won Oscars, neither of them won for acting.
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